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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Sources of fats






2. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






3. The higher the BMR a client has --






4. How many calories/gram is protein?






5. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






6. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






7. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






8. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






9. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






10. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






11. What is normal albumin levels?






12. What function is vitamin D?






13. What are healthy sources of fats?






14. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






15. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






16. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






17. Where can you get more vitamin D?






18. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






19. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






20. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






21. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






22. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






23. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






24. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






25. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






26. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






27. What is the function of vitamin C?






28. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






29. What foods have high quality protein?






30. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






31. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






32. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






33. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






34. What is normal BMI?






35. Name six sources of grains






36. What is the function of vitamin E?






37. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






38. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






39. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






40. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






41. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






42. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






43. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






44. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






45. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






46. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






47. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






48. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






49. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






50. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?